Damon Albarn announces one-off London solo show

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Damon Albarn has shared another taste of his forthcoming second solo album, ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’, this time in the form of radiant new single ‘Royal Morning Blue’.The track is somewhat evocative of Albarn’s early work in Gorillaz, with an effervescent beat driving a soundscape that ebbs and flows between contrasting shades of light and dark.

Princess Beatrice has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, and she is set to receive a special title.

Dave Grohl has announced a run of intimate live appearances in support of his forthcoming autobiography The Storyteller – Tales of Life and Music, including a London date next week.The Foo Fighters frontman will appear onstage at the Savoy Theatre, which holds just over 1,000 people, next Monday (September 27).

Damon Albarn has revealed that he has collaborated with Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny for a forthcoming Gorillaz project.As reported by Remezcla, Albarn told Warp in an interview that he and Bad Bunny – real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – linked up while the two were both in Jamaica.“What I love about Gorillaz is that I can bring [in] anyone I want, you know?” he said.

Jamie Campbell wears a newspaper dress on the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie, Everyone’s Talking About Jamie, at The Royal Festival Hall on Monday (September 13) in London.

Damon Albarn will livestream his solo show at the Globe Theatre in London later this month.The sold-out gig will see the Blur frontman, his live band and a string quartet performing songs from Albarn’s forthcoming new album ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’, which is out on November 12 via Transgressive Records.“I love playing in the round and at the Globe you can see the moon too, marvellous,” Albarn said in a statement about the upcoming show.The live media platform

Chris Willman Music WriterLineups for the Los Angeles and London components of the “Global Citizen Live” broadcast have been revealed, with the L.A. show set for the Greek Theatre on Sept.

Global Citizen Live has revealed the Los Angeles and London performer lineups for its worldwide show on September 25.

Amanda Holden wowed in a tight denim jumpsuit while stepping out in London's glorious heatwave on Tuesday afternoon. Showing off her signature sexy style, the 50 year old was hard to miss in the stylish blue figure-flattering one-piece while exiting the Heart Breakfast Radio Studios in the British capital.The jumpsuit perfectly complemented the Britain's Got Talent star's bronzed glow, and she added to the head-turning look with white-rimmed retro shades and sleek locks.

APPOINTMENTSMusic rights tracking platform Utopia has hired Paul Gathercole, formerly Head of Analytics for Amazon Prime, as Chief Data Officer. “I am excited to get to work solving the biggest problems in the music industry together with the team at Utopia”, he says.

Placebo have announced an exclusive 2022 UK festival show.The group will be headlining Bearded Theory’s Spring Gathering which will take place next May, 26-29 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire.They will top the bill alongside Patti Smith and The Flaming Lips and will give fans a “‘tantalising taste of some brand-new material.”Elsewhere on the line-up are Nova Twins, The Mission, Amy McDonald and Peter Hook and The Light; more acts still to be announced.Tickets for the festival go on sale at

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Girl In Red has announced a free London show and a separate meet and greet event both taking place this week.Fresh off her appearance at last weekend’s Reading & Leeds Festival, the Norwegian pop star has now revealed that she will be hosting a fan event tomorrow (September 2) followed by a free show the next day.“I’M PLAYING A FREE SHOW IN LONDON ON FRIDAY,” The Girl In Red (real name Marie Ulven) wrote on Instagram. “Come meet me on thursday in Boxpark Shoreditch at 2PM to get your free

Damon Albarn has shared another taste of his forthcoming second solo album in the form of elegant new single ‘Particles’.The slow, tender new song will be the closing track of Albarn’s upcoming LP ‘The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows’, due to be released on November 12.According to a press release the song “originated in a chance conversation between Albarn and a fellow passenger on a plane bound for Reykjavik, one which covered the disruption of the pandemic and the